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<span class="top">The Book of Hosea</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">14:1</td>
<td>O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.</td>
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<td class="v">14:2</td>
<td>Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.</td>
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<td class="v">14:3</td>
<td>Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.</td>
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<td class="v">14:4</td>
<td>I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.</td>
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<td class="v">14:5</td>
<td>I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.</td>
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<td class="v">14:6</td>
<td>His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.</td>
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<td class="v">14:7</td>
<td>They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.</td>
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<td class="v">14:8</td>
<td>Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.</td>
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<td class="v">14:9</td>
<td>Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</td>
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